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<blockquote data-quote="tommie" data-source="post: 210907" data-attributes="member: 370"><p>I just don't think this is a very realistic option to be quite honest, especially as ratings have been going down for decades now. It isn't just something that suddenly happened, but something that's been a trend for ages now; add that ratings doesn't necessarily reflect how profitable a show is. Last season <em>Star</em> got cancelled despite decent ratings because the ratings breakdown showed that it was appealing to a low-income demographic so the network ended up having difficulty charging advertisers to keep up with the cost of the show. Add that most actors just wouldn't want to tie their earnings on how a show is performing in ratings since that's out of their reach; CBS could, as an example, move the show to Saturday nights at 10PM and it would inevitable take a huge ratings nosedive.</p><p></p><p>Of course, there has been cases of actors taking pay cuts to keep shows on air though. Mariska Hargitay took a significant paycut on SVU maybe a decade or so ago when the show was doing less great in the ratings in return for a bigger cut of the syndication profits. It of course paid off big time for her. The guys on The Big Bang Theory took a pay cut so that the girls could get a raise, so it does happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tommie, post: 210907, member: 370"] I just don't think this is a very realistic option to be quite honest, especially as ratings have been going down for decades now. It isn't just something that suddenly happened, but something that's been a trend for ages now; add that ratings doesn't necessarily reflect how profitable a show is. Last season [I]Star[/I] got cancelled despite decent ratings because the ratings breakdown showed that it was appealing to a low-income demographic so the network ended up having difficulty charging advertisers to keep up with the cost of the show. Add that most actors just wouldn't want to tie their earnings on how a show is performing in ratings since that's out of their reach; CBS could, as an example, move the show to Saturday nights at 10PM and it would inevitable take a huge ratings nosedive. Of course, there has been cases of actors taking pay cuts to keep shows on air though. Mariska Hargitay took a significant paycut on SVU maybe a decade or so ago when the show was doing less great in the ratings in return for a bigger cut of the syndication profits. It of course paid off big time for her. The guys on The Big Bang Theory took a pay cut so that the girls could get a raise, so it does happen. [/QUOTE]
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